There are 55 article(s) tagged Metal Museum:

• October 2019

  • Metal Museum: Steel Magnolia country

    The Metal Museum's executive director Carissa Hussong calls the crowd-pleasing annual Repair Days “a reunion for the metalsmithing community.” The fundraising event is Oct. 17-20 this year.

    By Jill Johnson Piper October 22, 2019

• July 2019

  • Renovations start on historic Marine Hospital apartments

    The $18.5 million conversion of the long-vacant Marine Hospital into 71 apartments should be finished by July 1, 2020.

    By Tom Bailey July 23, 2019

• November 2018

  • Metal Museum makes its case for Overton Park’s Rust Hall

    The Metal Museum proposes to spend $21 million to renovate Overton Park’s Rust Hall and make it a “world class museum and educational center." The museum board approved what it calls the “expansion plan" in September as part of its campaign to win the keys to Rust Hall. The 78,000-square-foot headquarters of Memphis College of Art becomes available after the school closes in May 2020.

    By Tom Bailey November 22, 2018

• October 2018

  • Local arts groups participating in nationwide ‘For Freedoms’ initiative

    Last September, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas gave Memphis College Art’s Downing Pryor Lecture.

    By Elle Perry October 22, 2018

  • Metalsmiths descend on Memphis for Metal Museum’s Repair Days

    Typically, an object brought to the Metal Museum’s Repair Days is interesting because of the story behind it, rather than the object itself.

    By Elle Perry October 17, 2018